Popular rejoicing during the Greater Bayram festival.

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Egypt, Alexandria. Popular rejoicing during the Greater Bayram festival (Feast of the Sacrifice). The celebrations include sharing meat with family and poor people, sacrifice of an animal, wearing new clothes, gifts for children, having fun on merry-go-rounds and swings, visits to family graves. Drawing by Ricardo Balaca (1844-1880). Engraving. La Ilustracion Espanola y Americana, May 30, 1876.

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